The perl argument is a poor one- especially since it makes no sense.
Perl is dual licensed- GPL'd *and* released under the 'Artistic License'. I can't imagine anyone having a problem with a port of perl to another underlying language. The whole EverQuest issue is also different- they're not porting readily available source code, but reverse engineering protocols to build their own servers.
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The perl argument is a poor one- especially since it makes no sense.
Perl is dual licensed- GPL'd *and* released under the 'Artistic License'. I can't imagine anyone having a problem with a port of perl to another underlying language. The whole EverQuest issue is also different- they're not porting readily available source code, but reverse engineering protocols to build their own servers.
How is this similar again?
-Ash